Hulu has the Season 3 premiere episode until Sept. 22, but unfortunately it looks like they won’t have any more episodes available.
http://www.hulu.com/mad-men
Not doing ANYTHING to it. My dear, you are showing your youthful age if you don’t know that you would have to put up your hair in curlers before bedtime to keep the set. Curlers. Mesh tubes with a circular brush sticking out of each one, with bristles that stuck you the moment you laid your head on your pillow.
I mean, I assume that’s what happened because that’s what grossed me out when my mom did it. I’ve never watched that show because I grew up on the same block as those guys and have a “been there, done that, wished Mr and Mrs Jones would fight at home” attitude.
You would?! Wow. How is it that anyone in the modern era manages to have good hair when people back then were doing all that crap to themselves to look nice? Granted, I don’t know, maybe I just got lucky in that department but I maybe blow dry it once in a while when I want it to look bigger/straighter but even when I just sleep on wet hair, it looks fine in the morning.
Ask someone Of a Certain Age who is not a guy for the specifics. Others point to girdles as the most tortuous implements of “beauty,” but I could never fall asleep with my hair in curlers and torturers around the world know that sleep deprivation can be an effective tool.
Also the one where George gets in a fight over the perfect parking spot. OR the one where they park in the handicap spot because it’s the only one available.
I love his line about how parking is like sex–why pay for it when with a little extra effort you can get it f or free?
That never occurred to me. I had thought that in addition to his slit throat, Primus had also been poisoned with something that affected the color of his blood somehow.
They wouldn’t have thought your hair looked fine, back then. They would have probably thought you looked like a hot mess.
Even when it’s been blow dried to perfection and is totally straight? I really doubt that.
I loved how on the TV show Angel, Angel could never get his cell phone to work correctly. Now that’s realism!
Here. You wouldn’t likely have worn totally straight hair. Curls were in fashion. If you didn’t have natural curls, you’d have to give yourself some by sleeping in rollers or getting it done at the beauty parlor or whatever. No, not everybody did this, but a lot of people did. My grandmother still went to the beauty parlor once a week to get her hair washed and set, until the day she went into the nursing home.
But nowadays, straighter hair is in style and I don’t think someone who’s got curly but well maintained hair is a “hot mess” unless they’ve got some hideous poodle perm or something. I mean people can be out of style and still look hot.
My grandmother STILL gets her hair washed and set once a week. She’s 94 and the lady comes to the independent living facility. They all have their “regular appointments” just like they did in 1954.
To continue the hijack, I’ve always wondered how you’d do your hair if you had naturally curly hair. This is not me but it’s about my tightness of curl, would I have been able to get away with barrette-ing it away from my face or would I have had to comb the top down to look sleek and pouf out the rest?
Well…OK. Earlier, you said “How is it that anyone in the modern era manages to have good hair when people back then were doing all that crap to themselves to look nice?” The answer is, there were different standards for haircare and hair styles then. (Corollary answer is that there are different ways of looking nice, and even today there are higher and lower maintenance ways to do your hair and still be in the range of “looking hot”.) Are you looking for an answer like, “People back then were stupid?” Because I’m actually not even sure what we’re discussing at this point. 
That’s my vote, as someone who lived through it.
The Hubby toiled from 7 to 7 in an office, while Wifey made elaborate meals, raised the kids, “put up” her hair in rollers, stripped the old wax off her kitchen floor with a razor blade, and … are you ready … washed and dried and then wet her husband’s shirts with a special shaker-bottle and froze them in the freezer for a day or two and then ironed them (for hours, it seemed) to make sure he’d “get ahead at work”!
I did not see that on TV. I lived it. It was stupid and most of the wives ended up resenting it (while their spouses wondered why “the little gals” were unhappy and why they didn’t know their own children).
Suburbia in the Eisenhower era was repressive. And I just got some cheap therapy – thanks, all!
My 80 year old mom still puts what hair she’s got in the rollers with the brushes inside, held with bobby pins. AND still sleeps in them. :eek: I remember my teenage cousin rolling her hair up using empty orange juice cans for rollers back in the 60’s. That’s what they did before the blow dryer/round hairbrush was invented.
I always thought the knitted afghan on Roseanne’s couch (knitted by grandma?) really looked perfect there. Oh, and the monstrous, deliberately tacky Christmas display they defiantly put up after getting a letter from a neighborhood group that dictated all houses should conform to a certain statement.
Actualy, the reason he couldn’t work his cell phone was that other than cars, Angel had zero grasp of 20th-century technology.
Well, I just mean that I never go to a stylist or anything and I usually manage to do a good job on my hair on my own.
I liked that Adam West’s Batmobile had an afterburner, and that he was a stickler for seat belts. The former distracted form the fact that it could only go about 15 mph.